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Peony: PAEONIA, Continued. 
the largest, most showy and . attractive 
flowers in cultivation, almost rivaling the 
rose in color and blossom. They are of 
stately growth, very hardy and delightful 
when in blossom. The nublic is beginning 
to appreciate the many fine varieties of re- 
cent introduction, ranging from pure white 
through the different shades of pink, rose, 
variegated, purple, etc. They increase in 
beauty with age and may be planted in al- 
most any situation. We recommend Fal 
planting. They succeed best in rich soil 
and will be benefited by a mulch of rotten 
manure during the Winter, which may be 
lightly spaded into the soil in the Spring, 
Many of them are very double and have a 
delicate and refreshing fragrance. They 
are easily cultivated and require but little 
protection. Blossoms from four to eight 
inches in diameter. Foliage rich, glossy, 
deep green color. 
Adolph Rousseau. Very large; deep, brill- 
iant pink. One of the best varieties and 
is a free bloomer. 
Delicatissima. Late flowering variety of 
rare beauty. Full, double immense blos- 
soms, delicate, clear pink, passing to blush 
white center. Very fragrant, blooms freely. 
Edulis superba. Bright violet-rose, sil- 
very reflex. Fragrant and early. 
Felix Crouse. Very bright red; large ball- 
shaped flower. 
Festiva maxima. Extra large, in clusters, 
fragrant, the finest early white. It is pure 
white except for a few flakes of crimson 
on some of the center petals, h ull double 
flower, as near a perfect pasony as one 
could desire. 
Marie Lemoine. (Calot. ) Large sulphur 
white, creamy center; double, massive 
flowers; strong stems; one of the finest; 
very late. 
Modeste Guerin. Deep cherry rose, bright 
and showy; very large, distinct and fine 
shaped; fragrant; one of the best. 
Rubra triumphans. (Delache.) Bright car- 
mine. 
Also other choice named varieties. 
Polyanthus: TUBEROSE. 
These deliciously fragrant, white, wax- 
like plants should be in every garden, his 
valley is particularly adapted to their suc- 
cessful culture. 
T1GRIDIA. 
One of the most showy of all Summer 
bulbs, and blooms from midsummer until 
frost, growing three feet high, with large 
wide-open triangular blooms four to six 
inches across. The colors and ma. kings 
are very brilliant and peculiarly odd and 
attractive, and clumps of the in the border 
have a most gorgeous effect. It is difficult 
to name a flower of such unique and ex- 
quisite beauty as a Tigridia, the superb 
Field of P^eonias in the Nursery. 
